Skvirskaja
Biographic Data
| ID | 20612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Skvirskaja |
| FAMILY NAME | Skvirskaja |
| SIGNATURE | SKVIRSKAJA |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5637-5192 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
National self-identifications and coexistence in war-affected Ukraine: Preconditions for recovery
Scholars have recognized that it is not simply Ukraine's victory over Russia but also Ukraine's ability to secure peace that is a necessary precondition for successful (postwar) recovery. While Ukraine claims to fight an anti-imperial war against Russia, Ukraine's ability to secure peace depends on the course of its decolonization practices in the realm of cultural heritage and national identity. This article discusses popular articulations of na…
The end of the bazaar? Morphology of a post-Soviet marketplace
The proliferation of online commerce has modified retail and wholesale trade. This paper discusses the consequences for the large outdoor marketplaces that emerged in post-Soviet space. These markets, locally designated as bazaars, have become an important feature of economic life, attracting transnational, foreign traders and offering a huge range of commodities. Rather than attempting to define the bazaar as an economic category fixed in time a…
Festschrift for Professor Emeritus Jørgen Delman
On Changes and Legacies - Rethinking ‘Asia’ and ‘Copenhagen’
Editorial
New trade formations: Precarity, pragmatic cosmopolitanism and long-distance trade in the Caucasus
For many ordinary people responding to ongoing post-Soviet precarity, domestic and transnational trade has become a common choice of livelihood. This article is about the small and medium sized traders who deal in cheap Chinese commodities in the Caucasus -particularly in Georgia and Armenia. It introduces the notion of 'trade formations' to account for the multiple ways in which cross-cultural trade and microfinance practices, as well as stereot…
Native Marriage “Soviet” and “Russian” Style
Based on fieldwork in Nenets tundra encampments and multiethnic villages on the northern Yamal Peninsula, this article discusses people’s experiences and expectations of married life. Two types of marriage—”arranged” and “love marriage”—are used to illustrate how marriage brings to the fore the political economy of desire and local reflections on the good society. The article suggests that while Soviet ideology and post-Soviet neotraditionalist d…
Nenets Marriage: The Political Economy of Desire and Matrimonial Emotions
Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the northern Yamal Peninsula (2000–2001), this paper discusses people’s experiences and expectations of married life and how these expectations are influenced by affective ties to a wide range of relations. Two types of marriage — arranged marriage and love marriages between Nenets women and Russian newcomers — are used to illustrate the ways in which marriage is not only about the sentiments of spouses, but oft…
Merchant identities, trading nodes, and globalization: Introduction to the Special Issue
The contributors to this Special Issue are concerned by the nature of transregional Asian interactions taking place in the field of commerce. They explore this concern through an examination of the experiences, activities, and histories of commodity traders whose life trajectories criss-cross Asia. The articles share a common geographic point of reference: Yiwu - an officially designated ‘international trade city’ located in China’s eastern Zheji…
Russian merchant' legacies in post-Soviet trade with China: Moral economy, economic success and business innovation in Yiwu
This article focuses on Russian traders operating in China, particularly in Yiwu, the major commercial hub for the ‘small commodity’ trade, and explores the idea of the ‘Russian merchant’ prevalent in Russia today. Rather than examining the new commercial culture from the perspective of global neoliberalism, it deals with Russia’s pre-Soviet merchant estate (soslovie) and its present-day political-ideological evocations. While there is no direct …
Converting experiences in ‘communities of practice’: ‘Educational’ migration in Denmark and achievements of Ukrainian agricultural apprentices
This article looks at ‘educational’ migration instigated by the Danish programme of agricultural apprenticeships, which since the late 1990s has brought many young Ukrainians to rural Denmark. It discusses discrepancies between the logic of achievement implied by the programme’s ideology on the one hand, and Ukrainian apprentices’ aspirations to social mobility on the other hand. In this way, the article questions the concept of ‘community of pra…
Contested Souls: Christianisation, Millenarianism and Sentiments of Belonging on Indigenous Rural Yamal, Russia
Le renouveau religieux est une des caractéristiques des vastes changements idéologiques qu’a vécus la Russie postsoviétique. Cet article aborde la question de l’influence des nouveaux courants religieux – l’Église orthodoxe et une dénomination évangélique que la première condamne – sur les habitants indigènes de Yamal au tournant du millénaire. Plutôt que de les considérer, comme c’est souvent le cas tant dans les médias que dans certains travaux…
The many faces of Turkish Odessa
The article discusses regional territoriality by looking at the heterogeneous community of Turkish male migrants and the multiple alliances they establish in post-Soviet Odessa, Ukraine. In its public image, the city plays down ideas of urban continuities with the Ottoman past, but new relations between Turkish newcomers and various Turkic-speaking groups in the area both create different and overlapping "ecumenical communities" and actualize lon…
New Diaspora in a Post-Soviet City: Transformations in Experiences of Belonging in Odesa, Ukraine
Situated in Ukraine, post-Soviet Odesa has experienced emigration of its ethnic minorities (Jews, Greeks, Germans), seeing them replaced by Slav newcomers, transnational migrants, traders, and refugees. This migration pattern provides an opportunity to reflect critically on scholarly ideas of ‘new diaspora’, understood as vibrant cultural mixing. Drawing on Appadurai's notion of ‘translocality’ and focusing on Soviet generations of Odesans, I arg…
Trading places
This article discusses a vast, new and semi-legal marketplace of shipping containers on the outskirts of Odessa, Ukraine. It is suggested that such markets, which have sprung up at several places in post-socialist space where routes intersect, have certain features in common with mediaeval trade fairs. However, today's markets have their own specificities in relation to state and legal regimes, migration, and the cities to which they are semi-att…
Claus Oreskov (red.): Tundraens og tajgaens folk. En antropologisk, religionssociologisk, folkloristisk og biologisk fremstilling af de russiske urfolks situation i dag
Anmeldes af Vera Skvirskaja
Trading places
This article discusses a vast, new and semi-legal marketplace of shipping containers on the outskirts of Odessa, Ukraine. It is suggested that such markets, which have sprung up at several places in post-socialist space where routes intersect, have certain features in common with mediaeval trade fairs. However, today's markets have their own specificities in relation to state and legal regimes, migration, and the cities to which they are semi-att…
Merchant identities, trading nodes, and globalization: Introduction to the Special Issue
The contributors to this Special Issue are concerned by the nature of transregional Asian interactions taking place in the field of commerce. They explore this concern through an examination of the experiences, activities, and histories of commodity traders whose life trajectories criss-cross Asia. The articles share a common geographic point of reference: Yiwu - an officially designated ‘international trade city’ located in China’s eastern Zheji…
Russian merchant' legacies in post-Soviet trade with China: Moral economy, economic success and business innovation in Yiwu
This article focuses on Russian traders operating in China, particularly in Yiwu, the major commercial hub for the ‘small commodity’ trade, and explores the idea of the ‘Russian merchant’ prevalent in Russia today. Rather than examining the new commercial culture from the perspective of global neoliberalism, it deals with Russia’s pre-Soviet merchant estate (soslovie) and its present-day political-ideological evocations. While there is no direct …
The many faces of Turkish Odessa
The article discusses regional territoriality by looking at the heterogeneous community of Turkish male migrants and the multiple alliances they establish in post-Soviet Odessa, Ukraine. In its public image, the city plays down ideas of urban continuities with the Ottoman past, but new relations between Turkish newcomers and various Turkic-speaking groups in the area both create different and overlapping "ecumenical communities" and actualize lon…
New trade formations: Precarity, pragmatic cosmopolitanism and long-distance trade in the Caucasus
For many ordinary people responding to ongoing post-Soviet precarity, domestic and transnational trade has become a common choice of livelihood. This article is about the small and medium sized traders who deal in cheap Chinese commodities in the Caucasus -particularly in Georgia and Armenia. It introduces the notion of 'trade formations' to account for the multiple ways in which cross-cultural trade and microfinance practices, as well as stereot…
New Diaspora in a Post-Soviet City: Transformations in Experiences of Belonging in Odesa, Ukraine
Situated in Ukraine, post-Soviet Odesa has experienced emigration of its ethnic minorities (Jews, Greeks, Germans), seeing them replaced by Slav newcomers, transnational migrants, traders, and refugees. This migration pattern provides an opportunity to reflect critically on scholarly ideas of ‘new diaspora’, understood as vibrant cultural mixing. Drawing on Appadurai's notion of ‘translocality’ and focusing on Soviet generations of Odesans, I arg…
Claus Oreskov (red.): Tundraens og tajgaens folk. En antropologisk, religionssociologisk, folkloristisk og biologisk fremstilling af de russiske urfolks situation i dag
Anmeldes af Vera Skvirskaja
Trading places
This article discusses a vast, new and semi-legal marketplace of shipping containers on the outskirts of Odessa, Ukraine. It is suggested that such markets, which have sprung up at several places in post-socialist space where routes intersect, have certain features in common with mediaeval trade fairs. However, today's markets have their own specificities in relation to state and legal regimes, migration, and the cities to which they are semi-att…
New Diaspora in a Post-Soviet City: Transformations in Experiences of Belonging in Odesa, Ukraine
Situated in Ukraine, post-Soviet Odesa has experienced emigration of its ethnic minorities (Jews, Greeks, Germans), seeing them replaced by Slav newcomers, transnational migrants, traders, and refugees. This migration pattern provides an opportunity to reflect critically on scholarly ideas of ‘new diaspora’, understood as vibrant cultural mixing. Drawing on Appadurai's notion of ‘translocality’ and focusing on Soviet generations of Odesans, I arg…
Contested Souls: Christianisation, Millenarianism and Sentiments of Belonging on Indigenous Rural Yamal, Russia
Le renouveau religieux est une des caractéristiques des vastes changements idéologiques qu’a vécus la Russie postsoviétique. Cet article aborde la question de l’influence des nouveaux courants religieux – l’Église orthodoxe et une dénomination évangélique que la première condamne – sur les habitants indigènes de Yamal au tournant du millénaire. Plutôt que de les considérer, comme c’est souvent le cas tant dans les médias que dans certains travaux…
The many faces of Turkish Odessa
The article discusses regional territoriality by looking at the heterogeneous community of Turkish male migrants and the multiple alliances they establish in post-Soviet Odessa, Ukraine. In its public image, the city plays down ideas of urban continuities with the Ottoman past, but new relations between Turkish newcomers and various Turkic-speaking groups in the area both create different and overlapping "ecumenical communities" and actualize lon…
Converting experiences in ‘communities of practice’: ‘Educational’ migration in Denmark and achievements of Ukrainian agricultural apprentices
This article looks at ‘educational’ migration instigated by the Danish programme of agricultural apprenticeships, which since the late 1990s has brought many young Ukrainians to rural Denmark. It discusses discrepancies between the logic of achievement implied by the programme’s ideology on the one hand, and Ukrainian apprentices’ aspirations to social mobility on the other hand. In this way, the article questions the concept of ‘community of pra…
Native Marriage “Soviet” and “Russian” Style
Based on fieldwork in Nenets tundra encampments and multiethnic villages on the northern Yamal Peninsula, this article discusses people’s experiences and expectations of married life. Two types of marriage—”arranged” and “love marriage”—are used to illustrate how marriage brings to the fore the political economy of desire and local reflections on the good society. The article suggests that while Soviet ideology and post-Soviet neotraditionalist d…
Nenets Marriage: The Political Economy of Desire and Matrimonial Emotions
Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the northern Yamal Peninsula (2000–2001), this paper discusses people’s experiences and expectations of married life and how these expectations are influenced by affective ties to a wide range of relations. Two types of marriage — arranged marriage and love marriages between Nenets women and Russian newcomers — are used to illustrate the ways in which marriage is not only about the sentiments of spouses, but oft…
Merchant identities, trading nodes, and globalization: Introduction to the Special Issue
The contributors to this Special Issue are concerned by the nature of transregional Asian interactions taking place in the field of commerce. They explore this concern through an examination of the experiences, activities, and histories of commodity traders whose life trajectories criss-cross Asia. The articles share a common geographic point of reference: Yiwu - an officially designated ‘international trade city’ located in China’s eastern Zheji…
Russian merchant' legacies in post-Soviet trade with China: Moral economy, economic success and business innovation in Yiwu
This article focuses on Russian traders operating in China, particularly in Yiwu, the major commercial hub for the ‘small commodity’ trade, and explores the idea of the ‘Russian merchant’ prevalent in Russia today. Rather than examining the new commercial culture from the perspective of global neoliberalism, it deals with Russia’s pre-Soviet merchant estate (soslovie) and its present-day political-ideological evocations. While there is no direct …
On Changes and Legacies - Rethinking ‘Asia’ and ‘Copenhagen’
Editorial
New trade formations: Precarity, pragmatic cosmopolitanism and long-distance trade in the Caucasus
For many ordinary people responding to ongoing post-Soviet precarity, domestic and transnational trade has become a common choice of livelihood. This article is about the small and medium sized traders who deal in cheap Chinese commodities in the Caucasus -particularly in Georgia and Armenia. It introduces the notion of 'trade formations' to account for the multiple ways in which cross-cultural trade and microfinance practices, as well as stereot…
The end of the bazaar? Morphology of a post-Soviet marketplace
The proliferation of online commerce has modified retail and wholesale trade. This paper discusses the consequences for the large outdoor marketplaces that emerged in post-Soviet space. These markets, locally designated as bazaars, have become an important feature of economic life, attracting transnational, foreign traders and offering a huge range of commodities. Rather than attempting to define the bazaar as an economic category fixed in time a…
Festschrift for Professor Emeritus Jørgen Delman
National self-identifications and coexistence in war-affected Ukraine: Preconditions for recovery
Scholars have recognized that it is not simply Ukraine's victory over Russia but also Ukraine's ability to secure peace that is a necessary precondition for successful (postwar) recovery. While Ukraine claims to fight an anti-imperial war against Russia, Ukraine's ability to secure peace depends on the course of its decolonization practices in the realm of cultural heritage and national identity. This article discusses popular articulations of na…
Political science (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)